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Lee Konitz and the Axis String Quartet: Play French Impressionist Music from the 20th Century
by Jack Bowers
This homage to 20th–century French Impressionist composers by alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and the Axis String Quartet might best be described as a sometimes interesting but more often overly ambitious venture. Konitz is an undeniably marvelous player (although not especially well–recorded here) and the quartet is clearly an accomplished unit, but the music itself is on ...
Nat Pierce, Dick Collins, Ralph Burns and the Herdsmen: Play Paris
by Jack Bowers
In early 1954, while Woody Herman’s Third Herd was touring Europe, a number of Woody’s sidemen took the opportunity to pick up some spare change by collaborating on a couple of sessions in Paris for French record executive Charles Delaunay. The results of the Paris dates are documented on tracks 1–8 of this reissue on Fantasy; ...
The Kelly Brand Nextet: Sister Luna
by Jack Bowers
Pianist Kelly Brand’s second album is as tastefully cooked as her first ( A Dream in a Stone ), with crisp blowing by front–liners Art Davis and Lou Stockwell and sure–handed support from Brand, bassist / husband Kelly Sill and drummers Tim Davis or Eric Montzka. A “nextet,” by the way, can be either a trio ...
The Ed Vezinho-Jim Ward Big Band: Smile
by Jack Bowers
It hardly ever fails. Just as one starts to believe that the big–band pool may at last be drying up, a precocious newcomer such as the Ed Vezinho–Jim Ward Big Band suddenly arrives from nowhere to satisfy his / her thirst for mouth–watering big–band Jazz and swat every gloomy notion into the proverbial cocked hat. Well, ...
Mark Elf: Swingin'
by Jack Bowers
This is guitarist Mark Elf’s seventh album, and the first six have been a chart–topping best–sellers. There are two reasons for this: (1) Elf, bless his entrepreneurial heart, does almost everything to ensure the albums’ success short of selling them door–to–door (and he’d probably do that too if he had to); and (2), he’s a wonderful ...
John Burnett and His Orchestra: Swingin' in the Windy City
by Jack Bowers
John Burnett, a transplanted Englishman who is best known to Chicagoans as the morning host at WDCB–FM, a Jazz–oriented outlet of the College of DuPage, has had a life–long love affair with big bands, especially those that flourished during America’s golden age of big–band music, also known as the Swing Era. He’d always dreamed of leading ...
The Elliot Lawrence Big Band: Swings Cohn and Kahn
by Jack Bowers
There's far more Cohn than Kahn on these studio / live dates from the '50s by the Elliot Lawrence Big Band, but that's not a criticism, merely an observation, as both Tiny and Al were superlative big--band writer / arrangers and this generously timed release includes topnotch material from both as well as several handsome charts ...
The Millennium Jazz Orchestra: Triangular
by Jack Bowers
The Millennium Jazz Orchestra, which until last year was the Big Barchem Band, proves on its third recording (and second for A–Records) that a world–class ensemble by any other name swings as lustily and as often, thanks to bracing charts by conductor Joan Reinders, a welcome appearance on five selections by guest artist Philip Catherine, and ...
The Buddy Rich Big Band: Wham!
by Jack Bowers
When a friend whose opinion I respect said Wham! contains the finest live performances by the Buddy Rich Big Band he’s ever heard, I had no choice but to acquire a copy and listen for myself. The good news — my friend was not mistaken; in spite of its unavoidable sonic shortcomings this is beyond a ...
Jerker Lindstrom and the Swedish Radio Jazz Group: April in T
by Jack Bowers
As there are no liner notes accompanying April in Täby, one is given no information about Jerker Lindström aside from a single photograph of him conducting the well–scrubbed Swedish Radio Jazz Group, in which he appears to be a teen–ager. If that’s true Lindström must also be a prodigy, as he wrote and arranged every number ...
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